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The Glenlivet 1959 Cellar Collection

Brand The Glenlivet
Expression 1959 Cellar Collection
Type Scotch Whisky / Single Malt
Vintage 1959
Abv 41.70%
Produced at Glenlivet Distillery
Region Speyside
Launched 1824
Availability Limited USA, UK, Spain, Portugal, France
Guide Price £71 plus (US$114 plus) NB! This is our upper price guide, but the whisky may sell for considerably more than this.
Website http://www.theglenlivet.com

Tasted in Whisky Magazine Issue 26 by Michael Jackson and Dave Broom.

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Tasting Notes

Michael Jackson

Nose
Fresh bread, well-toasted, buttered, and spread with grapefruit marmalade. A vase of flowers: orange blossom, surely?
Palate
Complex citrus and apricot flavours, very tightly combined, as though anxious not to seem showy. Discretion in the British tradition.
Finish
Orange oil. Perfumy. Bittersweet.
Comment
Vivid descriptors, but the flavours are very restrained. A most elegant whisky.

Dave Broom

Nose
Heady, aromatic and beautifully intense with floral notes, heather, a little smoke, fudge, sultana, honey, pot pourri and a sweetly subtle polished oak.
Palate
Sweet, rounded and honeyed with macadamia nut. The slightly heathery smoke hits mid-palate. Complex, subtle and rewarding.
Finish
A hint of smoke, fresh, a touch of oak dryness.
Comment
No woodiness at 43 Years Old, instead incredible intensity and freshness. Truly remarkable.

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